Unintelligible release announcements

Third party integrations
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There’s a lot of work being done to make HA more accessible to less technically skilled users.

But it seems to me that many contributors to Home Assistant assume that everyone who uses their work is able to understand the intricacies of github etc.

Here’s a good example - an update to the Hive integration.
Here is the release announcement:

I really value this integration and I really do appreciate it being maintained.

But I’d very much like to know what changes with this update.
Surely it would only take a few moments to describe the changes in plain English understandable by the peasants like me? Please?
@Khole ?

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Discuss it with its author (it’s a custom integration).

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@gwatuk Totally fair point – and I hear you.

You’re right that release notes like that aren’t particularly helpful if you’re not living in GitHub day-to-day. The reality is most of the time these releases are cut pretty quickly between other work, and the “what’s changed” ends up being whatever came through in the PR titles rather than something written with end users in mind.

I’ll keep this in mind going forward and make sure the release notes are clearer and more useful. I have updated the release notes for the last release.

Appreciate you calling it out, and also for sticking with the integration

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@Khole thank you.

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@123 I was actually trying to make a general comment, not a specific request.

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Your “general comment” used a specific example. You called it a “good example”.

What’s written in a Github repository is not subject to the Home Assistant project’s documentation guidelines.

The official documentation and the Release Notes are intended for users and the general public. Is there anything in, for example, the latest Release Notes that you feel ought to be modified?

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They are absolutely fine now.